Bracket-hook.



No. 827,627. PATENTED JULY 31, 1906. E. A. GRAHAM.

BRACKET HOOK;

APPLICATION FILED NOV.25,1906.

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ERNEST A. GRAHAM, OF BAR HARBOR, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LIZZIE N. FORD, OF BAR HARBOR, MAINE.

BRACKET-HOOK- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1906.

Harbor, of Maine, have invented a new and useful Bracket-Hook, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combined curtain-pole and shade-roller brackets, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device employed at the rotating end of the shade-roller with a portion of the wall and the window-casing in section. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of the device employed at the spring end of the shade-roller. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the bracket shown in Fig. 1.

The improved device comprises a bar of metal of suitable quality and strength folded upon itself centrally and bent into a hook 10 at the fold and with the ends diverging, one arm 11 bent into a hook at 12 and flattened for engaging over a supporting structure, such as a window-casing at 13, and the other arm 14 for bearing against the supporting structure.

The device will be constructed rights and lefts or with the lugs 15 at opposite sides of the arms 11 and with the apertures 16 in one lug elongated, as shown in Fig. 2, to receive the oblong stud at the spring end of the roller to prevent spring-core from rotating.

The free end of the arm 14 is preferably padded, as at 17, to prevent abrasion of the woodwork of the casing.

In applying the device the flattened end 12 is driven downwardly between the casing 13 and the plaster of the wall, (represented at 18,) the plaster yielding sufficiently to receive the thin portion 12 and without marring the casing over which it bears and is thereby firmly held without the use of nails, screws, or other similar fastening means.

Each bracket member is constructed from a single piece of sheet metal, preferably brass, or the like and bent into the required shape.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- A bracket device of the class described into a pole-supporting loop at the fold and with the arms diverging and the terminal of the upper arm bent downwardly and fiattened for entering between the plastering and the support, and the terminal of the other arm extended for bearing upon the support at a lower point, said upper arm I leaving a lug depending therefrom and provided with a transverse aperture to receive the bearing of the shade-roller.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

E. A. GRAHAM.

. Witnesses:

S. H. SOUTHARD A. V. GRAHAM.

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